Small Press

[cleveprint]

Hey All. Looking for a few opinions. In the last year or so, we've had a ton of work for non-normal prints and print locations. Sleeves, pockets, koozies, bags. All the weird stuff that just sucks away time from the auto. We do 90% of it all manually now. Ive thought about another manual to put on the side and have a second line of production going, but finding someone that can manually print is the difficult part. Training is a pain and hasn't seemed to work for us. I started looking at a few small autos or semi-autos. Like the Lawson Mini Printer or AWT accu-print. Something that we can throw 1/Color stuff on and essentially a monkey could run it. Does anyone have any experience with anything like this? Or suggestions on what direction to go if you've been in a similar situation? Thanks!

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Hey All. Looking for a few opinions. In the last year or so, we've had a ton of work for non-normal prints and print locations. Sleeves, pockets, koozies, bags. All the weird stuff that just sucks away time from the auto. We do 90% of it all manually now. Ive thought about another manual to put on the side and have a second line of production going, but finding someone that can manually print is the difficult part. Training is a pain and hasn't seemed to work for us. I started looking at a few small autos or semi-autos. Like the Lawson Mini Printer or AWT accu-print. Something that we can throw 1/Color stuff on and essentially a monkey could run it. Does anyone have any experience with anything like this? Or suggestions on what direction to go if you've been in a similar situation? Thanks!

You might want to take a look at the Diamondback L. it has a 14X11 image area and takes up 8'

[tonypep]

And I have designed an (almost) all in one platen (man or Auto) for M&R that can do all of that except long sleeve; simply by turning it around. Prints pkts/slvs koozies 2 up

[3Deep]

I know people might not want to hear this but I think Anatol builds a pretty good small auto with a very small footprint and has all the bells and whistle's of the larger press's.  Shopping for a small auto to fit our space some 8 years ago only two companies had them and Anatol was my choose, the press we have has been a workhorse for us and I can't recall having a breakdown that cost us days at a time of no production, just my 2 cents.

[cleveprint]

Ive looked at the diamondback L, but I think Im looking for something lower cost. Hence why I said the other two options. But it would be nice to have a smaller footprint full sized auto that could handle more regular shirt work as well. I guess we are just thinking outside the box completely. Those two ASI type printers just caught my eye. Haven't done too much research into either yet though.

[TCT]

Ive looked at the diamondback L, but I think Im looking for something lower cost. Hence why I said the other two options. But it would be nice to have a smaller footprint full sized auto that could handle more regular shirt work as well. I guess we are just thinking outside the box completely. Those two ASI type printers just caught my eye. Haven't done too much research into either yet though.

Problem is lower cost will bring you lower quality....
Contact The OTS out of CA, they could probably make up a custom deal...
Otherwise you could contact ASPE they will make a machine for just about any application. Just make sure you ask all your questions up front, and if you want opaque prints cover that with them and get samples.